"Uncle Monday" BONE MIZELL AND HIS TEETH Pen & Ink Drawing

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Title:

"Uncle Monday" BONE MIZELL AND HIS TEETH Pen & Ink Drawing

Date:

1999-2000

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Content Description:

Drawing. Pen & Ink drawing illustrating a Folk Tale entitled, Bone Mizell and His Teeth. The Earmark of Bone's Teeth, shows a man in ragged clothes, grinning broadly as he holds a lasso rope in his left hand which is looped around a cow's neck. His right hand is holding the cow's right ear up to display a jagged bite out of ear's lower edge. Illustrates a cracker cowboy folk tale about Bone Mizell, an actual person.